Working People and the Crisis

Watch “The Take,” a film on unemployed workers in Argentina who have been taking over bandoned factories and running them democratically. Could this happen in the Untied States?

Discuss with Mike Filippou, a union activist and a worker at Stella D’ Oro’s bakery in the Bronx. Stella D’ Oro workers recently went o strike for 11 months, won, but now have to fight against Stella D’ Oro management’s decision to close the factory and reopen it with non-union labor in another part of the country.

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